At least one Shakespeare play a year. Preferably covering two tragedies, two comedies, two histories.
They Oedipus trilogy, and one Greek comedy.
Excerpts of Plato and Aristotle
Illiad and Odyssey
To Kill a Mockingbird
Some Jane Austin, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre
Some current writers as well - Beloved or Song of Solomon, A Prayer for Owen Meany
I would match a reading or two to as many time periods as possible. I would combine history and literature rather than English and lit as most schools do.